Sentences with phrase «poor diets of children»

Stop Stunting in South Asia documents three main drivers of child stunting in the region: 1) the poor diets of children in the five years of life; 2) the poor nutrition of women before and during pregnancy; and 3) the prevailing poor sanitation practices in households and communities.

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It is a disease of poverty and poor diet, responsible for 1.9 to 2.8 million preventable deaths annually, mostly of children under 5 years old and women.

In an experiment, Dr Weston Price monitored the dental health of poor children after feeding them a very nutritious diet including lots of vitamin K2, vitamin D and various minerals.

Given that Golden rice is promoted as a means to raise the standard of nutrition among poor and malnourished children, a diet so rich in meat, fat, protein and vegetables is unrealistic and thus uninformative as far as the enhanced nutrition of the «target group» is concerned.

It is also thought that a poor diet and a lack of exercise could cause a child to develop diabetes.

I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for middle class families who care deeply about their child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but school menus have great impact on many, many poor children who, through no fault of their own and often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.

What he does point out at the top of the article is something foundational to our and our children's health and well - being: «Because of poor diets, many school children and adults have immune systems that don't operate at peak efficiency.

One third of our nation's children are on track to get type II diabetes, primarily because of poor diets.

From the file of Rather Obvious News, this study from the University of Michigan Medical School: children who consume foods purchased from school vending machines, school stores, snack bars and other sales that compete with the federal school lunch program are «more likely to develop poor diet quality — and that may be associated with being overweight, obese or at risk for chronic health problems such as diabetes and coronary artery disease.»

Constantly offering your child foods that are high in sugar and saturated fat (which most bribing foods are) will not only displace healthier more nutrient - dense foods in their diet, but also contribute to poor dental health, overweight / obesity, and a whole host of long term health problems.

Poor diet is now the biggest underlying cause of disease and death globally — bigger than tobacco, alcohol and physical inactivity — and early child feeding plays a key role in building and reinforcing healthy and unhealthy food preferences so its crucial that sugar levels are lowered.

Poor diet is now the biggest underlying cause of disease and death globally [iii]-- bigger than tobacco, alcohol and physical inactivity, and early child feeding plays a big role in building and reinforcing both healthy unhealthy food preferences.

If you are a student, I ask you to please read this article and the links to my other articles on the deadly toxins in processed food and how children as young as ten are developing diabetes, heart disease, learning problems because of poor diet.

Some children get cavities because of poor hygiene or other health problems, but also because of poor diet.

«They're much needed, given high childhood obesity rates and the poor state of our children's diets.»

There are 1,400 known cases of Type 2 diabetes in children, all of them directly attributable to poor diet and lack of physical exercise.

The teeth of the noblewomen are less worn, because they ate a softer diet with meat, whereas poorer women and children often ate coarse millet.

A review of the child's diet revealed poor family nutritional habits with uncontrolled counting of calories and fat.

The researchers from King's and Bristol found that poor prenatal nutrition, comprising high fat and sugar diets of processed food and confectionary, was associated with higher IGF2 methylation in children with early onset conduct problems and those with low conduct problems.

The study, titled «The association of fast food consumption with poor dietary outcomes and obesity among children: is it the fast food or the remainder of diet?

«The study presented strong evidence that the children's diet beyond fast - food consumption is more strongly linked to poor nutrition and obesity,» said Jennifer Poti, doctoral candidate in UNC's Department of Nutrition and co-author of the study.

Like 500,000 other children born in poor countries, her blindness is a result of vitamin A deficiency, a problem that could have been fixed by a diet adequate in vegetables such as carrots or tomatoes.

Vegetarians claim that the body's requirements for vitamin A can be met with carotenes from vegetable sources, but many people — particularly infants, children, diabetics and individuals with poor thyroid function — can not make this conversion.7 Furthermore, studies have shown that our bodies can not convert carotenes into vitamin A without the presence of fat in the diet.8 Dr. Price discovered that the diets of healthy isolated peoples contained at least ten times more vitamin A from animal sources than found in the American diet of his day.

A diet low in animal protein and high in cereals can increase the risk of ammonium acid urate bladder stones in children, mainly in tropical areas with poor nutrition [84].

I believe her Gut and Psychology Syndrome, and Gut and Physiology Syndrome (GAPS) Nutritional program is vitally important for MOST people, as the majority of people have such poor gut health due to poor diet and toxic exposures, but it's particularly crucial for pregnant women and young children.

Poor diet is one of the biggest threats to children's public health in this country.

It is true that a certain amount of fat is needed for the bioavailability of vitamin A. However, according to the literature only 5 g / d are sufficient, whereas even in the poorest quintile of households in India average fat intake per adult equivalent is 35 g / d, and e.g. on the Maldives the fat intake of children aged 1 - 3 years is 22 (± 11) g / d, i.e. for Golden Rice to work no additional fat is needed in the diet of the target groups.

Dental caries is prevalent among Australian children (with 48 % of five year olds having tooth decay that requires treatment such as fillings), and poor diet (particularly foods and beverages high in sugar) is a key contributing factor to dental decay.

As noted in the previous chapter, health inequalities can be fairly broadly defined to include differences in: specific health outcomes (such as low birthweight, obesity, long - term conditions, accidents); health related risk factors that impact directly on children (such as poor diet, low levels of physical activity, exposure to tobacco smoke); as well as exposure to wider risks from parental / familial behaviours and environmental circumstances (maternal depression and / or poor physical health, alcohol consumption, limited interaction, limited cognitive stimulation, poor housing, lack of access to greenspace).

Institutionalized children don't just suffer emotional privation but also poor physical care such as bad diet and also lack of stimulation.

Regarding cognitive ability, early - life and prolonged exposure to poverty have been found to be particularly detrimental.30, 35,36 The literature points to a multitude of ways in which the parents» financial situation affects children's cognitive ability.35, 37 These include the more direct effects of poverty, such as poor diet, poor housing conditions, poor neighbourhood environment and inferior access to goods and activities that may stimulate cognitive development.

The causes of chronic conditions are believed to include: poor foetal and child health; poor diet throughout the lifecycle; smoking and alcohol misuse; a lack of access to primary health care (which is important in the detection and early prevention of chronic conditions); and social stress.